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August 14th 2017

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Bradley Robert Edwards receives a service award at Kewdale Little Athletics Club in 2013.Source:Supplied

Accused Claremont serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards was called an “evil dog” and told “burn in hell with Satan” at a court hearing which heard allegations of “extreme” pornography evidence.

Mr Edwards, who has been in Hakea maximum security prison since his arrest in December 2016, was taken to the Western Australian Supreme Court for a hearing ahead of his forthcoming judge-only trial.

Wearing a blue shirt, tie and black trousers, he sat on the first day of a two to three day pre-trial directions hearing, the ABC reported.

Security officers removed a woman from the court gallery after she yelled at Mr Edwards “Edwards evil dog. Burn in hell with Satan. You’re a dog Edwards, a dog,” she said.

Prosecutors are expected to argue for the inclusion at trial of “propensity evidence”, which is not directly related to the allegations but to past conduct.

Bradley Robert Edwards will face trial in July for the alleged murders of (left to right, above) Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer.Source:Supplied

State prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo told Justice Stephen Hall she wanted to play to the court a video of a violent bondage style pornography film which she would argue was relevant to the hearing.

Ms Barbagallo told the court “no words were capable of describing” what was on the video, the ABC reported.

“We’re talking about pornography that is extreme. There is no description I can give … that adequately reflects what’s in the material,” Ms Barbagallo said.

Mr Edwards’ defence barrister Paul Yovich SC opposed the submission, but Justice Hall said he would view the material.

Mr Edwards has pleaded not guilty to the murders of three young woman from Perth’s fashionable Claremont night-life strip in the mid-1990s.

His trial on eight charges including the alleged murders of Sarah Spiers, 18, Jane Rimmer, 23 and Ciara Glennon, 27 is due to start in July.

The former Telstra worker has also pleaded not guilty to a 1988 alleged attack on an 18-year-old woman and an alleged abduction rape of a girl, 17, at Karakatta Cemetery near Claremont in 1995.

Bradley Robert Edwards (above at an athletics meet) had been in jail since 2016.Source:Supplied

Former Telstra worker Bradley Edwards (above).Source:Supplied

Bradley Edwards is expected to be transported physically from Hakea prison (above) into central Perth for the hearing.Source:News Corp Australia

Ms Barbagallo successfully applied for the hearing to be adjourned until Monday.

Paul Yovich told the court Mr Edwards’ defence questioned some of the prosecutions “factual assertion and requested witnesses due to give evidence at the trial not be allowed into the ore-trial hearing.